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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.lang.c,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES - comp.bbs.xbbs
Message-ID: <328@eda.com>
Date: 15 Nov 88 06:13:32 GMT
References: <420@chief.UUCP> <2007@uokmax.UUCP> <358@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> <8592@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
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In article <8592@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>In article <358@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> root@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey) writes:
>>I like what one poster suggested (and Sandy of xbbs, too), that we create
>>a group called comp.unix.bbs or comp.unix.conferencing as it would easily
>
>I'll point this out again.  Comp.unix.bbs is redundant with alt.bbs.  Alt
>groups are not somehow second class.  Feeds are available, and widely so.
>

Point it out as many times as you like it's still wrong. Alt is not
the same as the regular hierarchy. And redundency between them
is irrelevent. Alt. stands for Alternate. It doesn't stand for additional,
or complementary.

>Anyone wanting an alt.bbs feed [ your nickel ] may contact me at this

You got it right. It's my nickel.

jim

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